strxns 0.9.2.6 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Jun 24, 2007)
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.6 of the STREAMS X/Open Networking Services (XNS) strxns package.
The OpenSS7 XNS Networking package is an implementation of X/Open Network Services (XNS 5.2) for
Linux Fast-STREAMS and provides OSI conforming CDI, DLPI and NPI header files as well as several
DLPI and NPI modules and drivers that convert between Linux Native IP interface and the STREAMS DLPI
and NPI interface. One allows DLPI drivers to be added to Linux as IP interfaces, another provides
DLPI access to native Linux IP interfaces, and a third provides NPI access to the Linux IP
subsystem.

This is another separate release from the OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7 XNS Networking package,
formerly part of the (now deprecated) Linux STREAMS (LiS) package. These networking modules provide
DLPI, NPI and Linux IP drivers, as well as providing CDI, DLPI and NPI header files. The package
contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for XNS components in a separate
autoconf tarball.

This release is primarily a maintenance release supporting recent distributions and tool chains.
This release is a stable production release for Linux Fast-STREAMS.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

Dramatic performance improvements enabled by Linux Fast-STREAMS.

Support build on openSUSE 10.2.

Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel.

Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5).

Support build on Ubuntu 7.04.

Updated to gettext 0.16.1.

Changes to support build on 2.6.20-1.2307.fc5 and 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel.

Supports build on Fedora Core 6.

Support for recent distributions and tool chains.

This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous
releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs
for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions,
and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the
GNU Public License Version 2.
The release is available as an autoconf tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs.
See the downloads page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs.
See the strxns package page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and
binary RPMs and DEBs.

The OpenSS7 Project
is an opensource development project (called OpenSS7) to provide a robust and GPL'ed SS7, SIGTRAN,
ISDN and VoIP signalling stack for Linux and other UN*X operating systems.
The OpenSS7 Project
has existed in one form or another since 1996. For dowloads and further information, see the
project website.